Hi Thomas, I did confirm that the patch for the mgtk in authsae works. Thanks! If I bring down a node and bring it back, it will re-authenticate with the rest of mesh and the portal will not reinstall the mgtk tx keys.
Along the same lines I ran another test where a node goes in and out of range of the mesh portal. My setup is made of 3 nodes in range of each other. (node 1 ,2 and 3 the portal) I took node 1, removed its antenna and placed it next to node 2. The plink between node 1 and 3 went inactive and eventually timed out. The plink between node 1 and 2 remained established. Node 1 can be accessed through node 2 from the portal. (2 hops) I then took node 1 (still without its antenna) and placed it next to node 3. The plink between node 1 and 2 went inactive and eventually timed out. But, the plink between node 1 and node 3 never gets established back. At this point node 1 is isolated and can't be reached by any node. (no plink established) I have to manually force the re-authentication on either node (1 or 3) to recover the plink (between 1 and 3). This behavior would prevent self healing of the mesh in the case where nodes are somewhat dynamic. Note: I did run the same test with an open mesh and did not run into this problem. The open mesh does self heal. I know for the secured mesh authsae is in charge of the plink, I'll look at the code next and let you know what I find. --Fabrice _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://open80211s.com/mailman/listinfo/devel
